Sentences with phrase «following the agency model»

Guess what, guys, if you have more books published by authors and publishers not following the agency model and their prices are lower than agency model e-books — often substantially lower — e-books prices will appear to be lower overall.

Not exact matches

Reporting for the Excelsior Jobs Program is a good model to follow because it includes most of the metrics necessary to have a complete picture of recipients» commitments, actual performance, and incentives issued.3 Another good example is the downloadable data on Industrial Development Agency (IDA) projects provided on the Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) website, although quality metrics should include annual numbers, and not just totals.4 See Appendix A for a recommended list of metrics.

Texas voters 5 years ago approved a plan to fund CPRIT at $ 3 billion over 10 years, following a model similar to California's stem cell research agency.

The decision follows recommendations from an NIH advisory panel that said in January that the agency should curb research on chimps and instead «emphasize the development and refinement of other approaches, especially alternative animal models,» and move all but approximately 50 of the chimps to sanctuaries.

Following the murders at Charlie Hebdo in January, the agency funded several new research projects on security and violence — for example, into new mathematical models for social interactions — and increased its support for research on human behavior, the Middle East, the Muslim world, and religions in general.

The aspiring model was signed by Next modelling agency in 2007 and, following a brief sabbatical in 2009, returned to New York in 2010 where she was cast in lookbook shoots for Urban Outfitters and walked the Bill Blass showcase.

That collusion, in which the publishers all agreed to switch to an agency pricing model instead of the previously followed wholesale model, causing a sharp increase in the price of ebooks when Amazon was no longer allowed to discount publishers» titles.

Sorry, but for the major publishers — you know, those publishers who are being sued by the Department of Justice for price fixing and for others who have followed in their footsteps and have implemented agency model pricing — they don't want to sell the e-book.

Second, Hachette Book Group USA is following in Macmillan's footsteps regarding e-book pricing: Hachette Book Group to Transition to Agency Model.

Back to Shatzkin: Although the WSJ article and Michael Cader's follow up in Publishers Lunch make no «agency is dead» declaration and there are quotes from publishers and others indicating that there are a range of possible outcomes, including a version of agency that is modified to allow some discounting, everybody in the industry now has to contemplate what it would mean if the agency model is legally upended.

(For those who follow industry news, it was the launch of Apple iBooks — and its agency pricing model — that ultimately led to the Department of Justice lawsuit that accused Apple and the Big Five publishers of ebook price fixing.)

The death grip of the fight, it seems, is that Amazon knows that if it allows Hachette to switch to an agency pricing model — which was at the center of the far - reaching ebook price fixing lawsuit between Apple and the Big Five publishers — that other publishers will quickly follow suit, stripping Amazon of much of its power as a discount retailer.

Publishers HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster have signed a deal with Amazon to follow the agency pricing model for their books — the same deal publishers have with Apple for the iBookstore — allowing the two publishers to set their own books prices.

Since the financial crisis of 2007 — 2008 and the recession that followed, the book business has shuddered through intense turbulence: corporate mergers, acquisitions, spinoffs, and bankruptcies; startups that sizzled and then ceased; the fall of Borders and the rise of Amazon; new book formats, business models, imprints, and agencies; litigation; technological upheaval; and a host of other unexpected challenges and radical transformations.

If you've been following e-publishing lately, you may have heard that today, 5 out of the «Big 6» publishers forced Amazon to agree to an «agency model» when selling e-books instead of the previous «retail model.»

Book publisher Hatchett signed an agency - model deal on Jan. 24, and the other four publishers signed similar deals within the following two days.

The government complaint said the move to the agency model followed meetings between chief executives in «private dining rooms of upscale Manhattan restaurants», where «confidential business and competitive matters, including Amazon's ebook's retailing practices» were discussed.

Sorry, but for the major publishers — you know, those publishers who are being sued by the Department of Justice for price fixing and others who have followed in their footsteps and have implemented agency model pricing — they don't want to sell the e-book.

The reason I'd like to see it is because I want to see how the legacy publishers using the agency model of pricing v. those who follow the philosophy that you don't have to charge as much for e-books as you do for hard covers.

At the beginning of April, Hachette and HarperCollins also agreed a refined agency model with Amazon.co.uk following the European Commission ruling that the original agency publishers had to terminate their current agency agreements, and come up with new terms.

The proposed remedy from the Department of Justice follows Apple being found guilty last month of colluding with publishers to raise ebook pricing and force rivals to the so - called «agency model» and sets out several recommendations for how the Cupertino firm could be prevented from «conspiring to thwart competition» in the years ahead.

Made possible by a curatorial fellowship grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the convening was hosted by the Walker's Artistic Director Fionn Meade and Director and Senior Curator of Performing Arts Philip Bither, who invited a group of curators, programmers, artists, and producers to address the following: new models of performance curating that have arisen within and outside of the museum setting; evolving standards for collecting and archiving performance and live arts; challenges faced and learning opportunities in producing, commissioning, and acquiring performance - based art and its differing approaches to audience; and shared efforts toward artist advocacy and agency in the context of curating performance across stage, gallery, and emerging platforms.

We take our model of the drop here from the International Energy Agency, whose forthcoming World Energy Outlook 2009 projects a roughly 4 % drop between 2007 and 2009, and a subsequent return to 2007 levels by 2011 followed by a further 15 % rise to 2015.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy and other Obama administration officials have repeatedly said CCS technology is commercially available, and they have cited the Southern project as a model for other power plants to follow in order to comply with EPA's impending climate rules.

The next question is: will Germany follow the lead of the US Environmental Protection Agency's wood stove changeout campaign to phase out the older models of wood heaters commonly in use?

Lee adds that to avoid this problem, litigants should, where possible, follow the model set forth by the National Security Agency for secure redaction:

Following a report that the United States government is investigating Apple's power management function that slows down some older iPhone models, Apple issued a statement on late Tuesday confirming that it has «received questions from some government agencies» and is «responding to them.

Then, one of the interviewers said that the agency followed a family systems model, and asked if I was familiar with it.

(a) Document a minimum of twenty - four hours of academic preparation or board approved continuing education coursework in counselor supervision training including training six hours in each area as follows: (i) Assessment, evaluation and remediation which includes initial, formative and summative assessment of supervisee knowledge, skills and self - awareness; components of evaluation e.g. evaluation criteria and expectations, supervisory procedures, methods for monitoring (both direct and indirect observation) supervisee performance, formal and informal feedback mechanisms, and evaluation processes (both summative and formative), and processes and procedures for remediation of supervisee skills, knowledge, and personal effectiveness and self - awareness; (ii) Counselor development which includes models of supervision, learning models, stages of development and transitions in supervisee / supervisor development, knowledge and skills related to supervision intervention options, awareness of individual differences and learning styles of supervisor and supervisee, awareness and acknowledgement of cultural differences and multicultural competencies needed by supervisors, recognition of relational dynamics in the supervisory relationship, and awareness of the developmental process of the supervisory relationship itself; (iii) Management and administration which includes organizational processes and procedures for recordkeeping, reporting, monitoring of supervisee's cases, collaboration, research and evaluation; agency or institutional policies and procedures for handling emergencies, case assignment and case management, roles and responsibilities of supervisors and supervisees, and expectations of supervisory process within the institution or agency; institutional processes for managing multiple roles of supervisors, and summative and formative evaluation processes; and (iv) Professional responsibilities which includes ethical and legal issues in supervision includes dual relationships, competence, due process in evaluation, informed consent, types of supervisor liability, privileged communication, consultation, etc.; regulatory issues include Ohio laws governing the practice of counseling and counseling supervision, professional standards and credentialing processes in counseling, reimbursement eligibility and procedures, and related institutional or agency procedures.

Strategies: Establish a community reporting system that can assist in implementing the regional plan; support the preparation of community plans that can articulate regional planning issues at the local level; facilitate development of community consultation protocols that all levels of government and non-government agencies should follow; develop and disseminate an options paper on regional autonomy that can assist communities in the region develop appropriate autonomy models; advocate the Torres Strait Regional Authority to establish links with Torres Strait Islander people of the region.